The central teams that were visiting Bengal to monitor the coronavirus situation had accused the Mamata government of showing discrepancies with the number of cases and deaths. Now the Centre will be directly monitoring the case developments with a new app developed by NIC and ICMR.

Scientists believe that one can potentially learn from past influenza pandemics, "identifying key similarities and differences in the epidemiology of Covid-19 and pandemic influenza can help envisioning several possible scenarios for the course of the Covid-19 pandemic".

Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said that migrant labourers who are walking back to their home towns hundreds of kilometres away are in a way violating lockdown norms, but the state government is letting them go on humanitarian ground.

The Shanghai Disneyland theme park in the eastern metropolis reopened to visitors with controlled capacity on Monday, as China began opening up entertainment centres after a declining trend was noticed in the coronavirus cases, official media reported.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed all those at the forefront of research and innovation to defeat coronavirus and remembered the "exceptional achievement" of the country's scientists in carrying out the 1998 Pokhran nuclear tests.

An Iranian news website, Khabaronline.ir, quoted Cabinet spokesman Ali Rabiei as saying there is a "readiness for all prisoners" to be discussed without condition. He said that the outbreak of the Covid-19 disease threatens the lives of Iranian citizens in the US prisons.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi ​requested her to release Rs 5, 018 crore for panchayati raj institutions and Rs 2,416 crore for urban local bodies for the financial year 2020-21, as per recommendation of the Finance Commission.

A resident of Uttar Pradesh said that the people of India are obeying the lockdown protocols in order to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus in the country, but the government's step to open the alcohol shops has served to defeat the entire sacrifice of over 40 days.

In a televised address to the nation, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson laid out a five-level alert system that the government will be constantly monitoring based on scientific data to track the rate at which the deadly virus is spreading - referred to as the "R" rate.